This year God willing I will head into my sixth decade. In all those years, especially when working as an orderly and as a news reporter, have seen the aged in various forms. I certainly hope that God’s plans for me will include a relatively healthy life leading up to the time of my graduation from here.

He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you seven and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well.

“If you abide in My word, you are my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”. John 8: 31-32.

“Therefore if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” two Corinthians 5:17.

Amos is referred to as the prophet of justice and righteousness because of his focus on the two. He says “Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never –failing stream” Amos 5:24.